UKRAINE - People are deceived by the U.S. / EU - Nazis and fascists in control of government, formed by US and EU. - In this blog, I will provide the information that the Western press is not willing to give. The purpose is to open the eyes of the Norwegian, European and Ukrainian people about what actually happens in Ukraine, and who’s behind. Some text is mine, but also from friends or I borrow/ bring in from other media

søndag 17. juni 2018

Germany Was Defeated On The Eastern Front, Not Normandy

On my many walking visits to
the vast Normandy battlefield in France, I kept recalling the ever so
wise dictum of Prussia’s great monarch, Frederick the Great: ‘he who
defends everything, defends nothing.’ On this 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it’s well worth recalling the old warrior-king

Adolf Hitler, a veteran of the infantry, should certainly have known
better. Defending the European coast from Brittany to Norway was an
impossibility given Germany’s military and economic weakness in 1944.
But he did not understand this. Having so brilliantly overcome France’s
Maginot Line fortifications in 1940, Hitler and his High Command
repeated the same strategic and tactical errors as the French only four
years later: not having enough reserves to effectively counter-attack
enemy breakthrough forces.

Germany’s vaunted Atlantic Wall looked formidable on paper, but it
was too long, too thin, lacked defensive depth and was lacking in
adequate reserve forces. The linear Maginot Line suffered the same
failings. America’s fortifications protecting Manila and Britain’s
‘impregnable’ fortifications at Singapore also proved worthless. The
Japanese merely marched into their undefended rears.

In 1940, the German Wehrmacht was modern history’s supreme fighting
machine. But only four years later, the Wehrmacht was broken. Most
Americans, British and Canadians believe that D-Day was the decisive
stroke that ended WWII in Europe. But this is not true.

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching “Omaha” Beach on “D-Day”, 6 June 1944Germany’s mighty Wehrmacht, which included the Luftwaffe, was
destroyed by Stalin’s Soviet Union. The Red Army claims to have
destroyed 507 German divisions, 48,000 German tanks, 77,000 German
aircraft, and 100 divisions of Axis troops allied to Germany from Italy,
Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Finland.

Few Americans have ever heard of the Soviet Far East offensive of
1945, a huge operation that extended from Central Asia to Manchuria and
the Pacific. At least 450,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, wounded or
captured by the Red Army, 32% of Japan’s total wartime military
losses. The Soviets were poised to invade Japan when the US struck it
with two nuclear weapons.

Of Germany’s 10 million casualties in WWII, 75% were inflicted by the
Red Army. The once mighty Luftwaffe was decimated over Russia. Almost
all German military production went to supplying the 1,600 km Eastern
Front where Germany’s elite forces were ground up in titanic battles
like Kursk and Stalingrad that involved millions of soldiers.

Soviet forces lost upwards of 20 million men. Total US losses,
including the Pacific, were one million. To Marshal Stalin, D-Day, the
North African and Italian campaign were merely diversionary side-shows
to tie down Axis forces while the Red Army pushed on to Berlin.

D-Day was without doubt one of the greatest logistical feats of
modern military history. Think of General Motors versus the German
warrior Siegfried. For every US tank the Germans destroyed, ten more
arrived. Each German tank was almost irreplaceable. Transporting over
one million men and their heavy equipment across the Channel was a
triumph. But who remembers that Germany crossed the heavily defended
Rhine River into France in 1940?

By June, 1944, German forces at Normandy and along the entire Channel
coast had almost no diesel fuel or gasoline. Their tanks and trucks
were immobilized. Allied air power shot up everything that moved,
including a staff car carrying Marshal Erwin Rommel strafed by Canada’s
own gallant future aviator general, Richard Rohmer. German units in
Normandy were below 40% combat effectiveness even without their
shortages in fuel.Victory by Pyotr KrivonogovThe Germans in France were also very short of ammunition, supplies
and communications. Units could only move by night, and then very
slowly. Hitler was reluctant to release armored forces from his
reserves. Massive Allied bombing of Normandy alone killed 15,000 to
20,000 French civilians and shattered many cities and towns.

Churchill once said, ‘you will never know war until you fight
Germans.’ With no air cover or fuel and heavily outnumbered, German
forces in Normandy managed to mount a stout resistance, inflicting
209,000 casualties on US, Canadian, British, Free French and allied
forces. German losses were around 200,000.

The most important point of the great invasion is that without it,
the Red Army would have reached Paris and the Channel Ports by the end
of 1944, making Stalin the master of all Europe except Spain. Of
course, the Allies could have reached a peace agreement with Germany in
1944, which Hitler was seeking and Gen. George Patton was rumored to be
advocating. But the German-hating Churchill and left-leaning Roosevelt
were too bloody-minded to consider a peace that would have kept Stalin
out of at least some of Eastern EuropeSource:the author’s blog